Car 'thief' boasts by text

icTeesside – Confession by text

Text messages sealed the fate of a stolen car’s proud owner who used his mobile phone to boast about his new wheels, a court heard. Dean Howard celebrated the purchase of a stolen Lexus by texting his mother: “You should see my new car… It’s a ringer,” Teesside Crown Court was told yesterday.

The moral of the story? 1. Don’t steal cars. 2. Don’t ‘receive stolen cars’.  3. Don’t boast about it by text.